Sentence examples for earnest longing from inspiring English sources

Almost everyone is part of a pair: casually but fashionably dressed, and arranged in a metropolitan diorama of the stages of love, from polite first-date chatter to earnest longing.

Close at hand, though longing in earnest and calling to mind some distant place.

Long – and longing.

He longs in earnest to get away from, or back to, America, and such longing lies at the core of our national literature.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

"It is an earnest, obvious melodrama with no soul, filled with the longing silences that come after a sigh".

It's an earnest, obvious melodrama with no soul, filled with the longing silences that come after a sigh (Mitchell).

Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times called the film an "... earnest, obvious melodrama with no soul, filled with the longing silences that come after a sigh".

And longing.

Being earnest.

Libraries generate longing.